All a matter of context?

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There are contexts in which the term 'luscious' is of prime appeal and represents something central to the experience, e.g. mangoes.

I am just not sure that it is a word, culled from a review (and have we not heard of the long practice of picking out from a review single words that might be taken as favourable, publicity department, for the use of?) of a television programme, that would tempt me to view the thing. Okay, it appears to be of a histodrama nature, but even so, 'luscious' suggests to me, 'the wardrobe department and the set designer ran amuck', rather than, 'this is a riveting dramatic representation of a key period in Our Island Story'. It also suggests to me that it is the only potentially positive word they could find in the review they cite to put in the publicity.

Also in Dept of matters of context, there is a hoohah about the proposal to stage Shakespeare's Richard III in Leicester Cathedral, where he is now buried.

Up to a point, maybe, Richard III Society &Co, but I very much wonder how much attention would be being paid these days to the loser at Bosworth Field if Shakespeare hadn't written the play and given him enduring posterity as a fascinating villain.

Or would the story of the ickle princes in the Tower foully done to death have its own longevity even without that? as having a significant S&Y (Sellers and Yeatman) value as the bits of history people remember.